One of the things Owen Pallett mentioned when we spoke with him about his great new In Conflict is that he doesn’t want to make a habit of breaking down the music theory behind pop hits as he did for Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” and Lady Gaga&#821...

Coldplay and Kings Of Leon both headlined BBC Radio’s One Big Weekend on separate days in Glasgow this past weekend but Chris Martin stuck around after his set to join Kings Of Leon on stage. KOL frontman Caleb Followill introduced Martin as the “second most famous singer here today,” obviously after Katy Perry who ...

(Reuters) - Hometown alternative rock group Imagine Dragon was the early winner at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday in Las Vegas, capturing the top rock album award for "Night Visions." The annual awards show, a key showcase event for the music industry, will also feature performances by pop singers Katy Perry, Jennifer Lop...

Though it was a lovely little folk tune originating in 1892, “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built For Two)” has been the subject of strange interpretations at least since Hal 9000 sang it in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now artist Mark Ryden (best known recently for his artwork for Tyler, The Creator’s Wolf) has put together a [...]

I don’t know if any actual music-industry figures could’ve made this happen, but Mark Ryden, a pop-art painter who’s done a ton of album covers over the years, has lined up an impressive and all-over-the-place lineup of musicians to cover the same song on one album. This past weekend, Ryden opened a show called The ...